Ten days since the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran, the conflict’s impact has widened significantly, with Iran retaliating, Israel striking Lebanon, and oil prices surging.
Iranian officials have selected the late supreme leader’s son as his successor, but Trump has signalled Mojtaba Khamenei does not have his support. Previously, US President Donald Trump said he wanted a say in the selection of Iran’s new leader.
Speaking in Florida on Monday, Trump said although the US has had many military victories in Iran and the war would be completed soon, the US is “going to go further”. “We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough,” Trump told Republican lawmakers
The Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps responded to Trump’s comments that the war in Iran would end soon, saying that they will “determine the end of the war”. Tehran will not allow “one litre of oil” to be exported from the region if the US and Israeli attacks continue, the IRGC says, according to Reuters.
Trump describes the war as “an excursion” from his policy priorities but says it is important because he believes Iran was going to attack the US and Israel first
The US president, however, does acknowledge the war’s economic and social impacts at home, saying the tumbling stocks will rise again soon and that US personnel deaths were unavoidable
His comments come on the same day Trump had a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and as the US military publicly identified a seventh service member death since the war began late last month. The total US death toll has risen to eight
Across the Middle East, deaths have also been reported in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Lebanon. The Israeli military have continued to launch strikes inside Iran
The UK chancellor says inflation is likely to rise in Britain as the country signals support for the release of oil reserves by G7 member countries to help counter rising oil prices
French President Emmanuel Macron has been in Cyprus. The UK and other European nations have announced they are sending more military assets to Europe’s southern front
And finally, players of Iran’s women’s national football team who are currently in Australia have been granted humanitarian visas to stay
